Growing Cannas – Facts and Fancy

You don’t need global warming to get a warm glow in your garden if you plant some Canna. The fiery hot flowers and leaves on some Cannas are hard to beat and are worth a place in any passionate garden.

What other plant starts flowering in June and keeps flowering right through until the first frosts. Do not deadhead the flowers at any price as new blooms arise from the center of old ones. They flower in shades of red, orange, pink and yellow often bi-coloured with blotches, spots and streaks. The foliage is also a most attractive feature, and can be shades of purple/bronze, red, green and striped.

Growing Canna

The Gardener’s Guide to Growing Cannas

Canna or Cannaceae is a single genus that belongs to a group known as the Zingiberales, which include only a few plant families:

Zingiberaceae the gingers Musaceae the bananas Strelizeaceae bird of paradise flowers Marantaeceae prayer plant

All the Zingiberales have leaves that open by unfurling, they usually have large showy leaves, and they all come from the tropics. That explains the big, bold, lush, glorious, tropical leaves and flowers that are found on Cannas. Some of the individual species include Canna latifolia, liliiflora, pedunculata, flaccida, glauca, amabilis, speciosa, jacobiniflora, stenantha, Patens, plurituberosa or Canna paniculata, discolor, compacta, iridiflora, indica, bangii, coccinea and jaegeriana.

There are three groups of Cannas 12-18 inch high seed raised, Mid height including Canna patens and Warscewiczii and tall varieties that can reach 6 feet tall.

Canna Contacts and Links

http://www.clainescanna.co.uk A  canna website, hosted by Malcolm Dalebo in  England and his blog  http://www.clainescanna.co.uk/APage_News.htm .

http://cannaluver.com/Site/Can